Adrian Giddings

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Full-time carer, part-time photographer, VJ for This Is Radio Silence and temp0rary.

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This. Entirely this.

yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

Just idly wondering if there's a Le Mans-style start for political memoir ghost writers on days like these.

Ooh, this looks very good.

Nice project for the printerati out there. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cat...

ARCs: Vol.1 3D Printable Sci-Fi Assetswww.kickstarter.com Atmospheric STL Sci-Fi prop models to print at home for RPGs and Wargaming.

When the dust has settled it'll be interesting to see what the election results would have looked like under full PR.

reskeet with a tweet you still think about (with thanks to @hels.bsky.social )

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

Proper PR means everyone has their voice heard. A lot of those voices you won't like. It might give Reform more seats. That sucks, but it also means that you have to address the root issues that lead to far right votes. WHICH DOESN'T MEAN LURCHING RIGHT. FPTP is a crutch we need to cast aside.

Strong outfit with the Blyth and Ashington Returning Officer.

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Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger to ITV: “Putin would’ve been absolutely delighted by our decision (to leave the EU) and so would Xi.” “Particularly since I've left office and I've travelled around Europe, I'm profoundly depressed. Just nobody mentions the UK. We've made ourselves irrelevant.”

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Government should function effectively in the background like white goods. But for the past years it's been like your fridge-freezer noisily demanding attention every 5 mins, switching off for hours at a time, fiddling its definition of 'cold', and eating your food then blaming the washing machine.

While you do need photo ID to vote it DOESN'T have to be current, as long as the photo is a good likeness. I've just done my Tory fucking with a passport that expired three years ago.

What photo ID do I need to vote in the 2024 UK general election?www.theguardian.com For the first time people must bring photo ID to vote in a UK general election. Here is everything you need to know

Much love for the 'Someone British is talking'.

Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954

I didn't realise Starmer was so ill.

Britain will not rejoin EU in my lifetime, says Starmer

Britain will not rejoin EU in my lifetime, says Starmerwww.theguardian.com Labour leader also says he cannot foresee circumstances where UK would re-enter single market or customs union

It's annoying that Labour's massive landslide tomorrow will be touted as a ringing endorsement of their platform - which it categorically is not.

The Lord's work...

This is incredible

Do Republican voters know that Trump basically just played golf and shouted on Twitter when he was President while McConnell ran the country? If they do and they're still voting for him why are Democrats freaking out that Biden might have to be napping a lot of the time.

On the one hand a delusional lying Tory Party, on the other a Labour Party that sends me at least two emails a day saying unless they raise a million pounds the Tories will win. FFS.

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youtu.be/RAIbwJfcaJg?...

#BrokenNews - UK Voters Love "First Past The Post"youtu.be It's an ancient tradition that lives on in the UK. Despite many countries choosing to do something they describe as "modernising" their voting system, the UK...

I guess it matters less if the one guy was a bit wooly for 90 minutes when the other guy is about to be able to do whatever he wants.

Olivia Coleman.

If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone but don't explain it

Have @ianbetteridge.com and @ironspike.bsky.social been out for a stroll together?

Ah ha, aahahahahah. No wait, that's not how you spell class action. It's also not how copyright works at all.

every lawyer : uhhh "With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That's been the understanding," said Suleyman.

Ever put content on the web? Microsoft says that it's okay for them to steal it because it's 'freeware.'www.windowscentral.com Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content.

Strted in on The Bear Season 3 last night. If you ever wonder what assuredness in direction looks like it looks like this. Coming back from a cliffhanger season closer and after a delay due to the strike with a meditiative montage, largely in flashback, underpinned by only one music cue. Sublime.

Nine Inch Nails - Together (Audio Only)www.youtube.com From the album 'Ghosts V: Together' available now. #StayHome and ESCAPE #withMeMore details at: http://www.nin.comhttps://www.facebook.com/ninofficial/https:...

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After presidential debate America searches for two other presidential candidates before inevitably returning to Trump and Biden as the two best.

Oh so everyone's going to be posting their takes on the "prison memory brain science that some dude just made up" article for the next few days. And we'd just finished with the entirely spurious AI-edited feature films article takes. Sigh.

More fucking bonkers shit from the Labour Party's getting elected at any costs department.

Labour ‘not putting up a fight’ against Farage in Clacton

Labour ‘not putting up a fight’ against Farage in Clactonwww.theguardian.com Labour officials said to be upset that Jovan Owusu-Nepaul was gaining traction for viral social media posts

Sweet baby Jesuses!

Portsmouth: Snake has multiple virgin birthswww.bbc.co.uk Ronaldo was thought to be male until she gave birth to the babies at her home in Portsmouth.

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Lake District sewage campaigners launch nuisance complaint in legal first

Lake District sewage campaigners launch nuisance complaint in legal firstwww.theguardian.com Statutory nuisance complaint lodged by Save Windermere against United Utilities is a first over sewage pollution

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Just did this. It takes two minutes. Meta purposely tries to make it confusing and time-consuming, but with the linked step-by-step, it's very easy. You've got until midnight, gang.

again, today's the last day to try to opt out of facebook/instagram's AI bullshit. follow these instructions. If they refuse or something you can keep that email as proof when they inevitably get got for this deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t...

11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIdeborahcopaken.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

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Neat!

People said Greenpeace was nuts in 2009 to predict 921GW of installed solar by 2030. Last year there was 1,419GW. Cost dropped 95% from 2008-20 and it’s dropping faster. There will be vast amounts of cheap clean energy in the future; we just need to use it. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Sun Machineswww.economist.com Solar, an energy source that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge